Thanks to all who offered advice on the situation. So what I need is a " freeze staff spacing" command somewhere. Any thoughts?
Raymond Horton Composer, Arranger Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016 On Jul 17, 2016 1:58 PM, "Allen Fisher" <[email protected]> wrote: > My bad. That's what I get for answering a question too late in the day. > Christopher is right... Staff spacing is tied to the system. > > Allen > > > On Jul 17, 2016, at 6:14 AM, Christopher Smith < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Umm, I think Allen is talking about MUSIC spacing, not staff spacing. > You need to preserve staff spacing, right? Distance between staves in a > system? > > > > I would have assumed that Finale remembers the space between system > NUMBERS, regardless of content. This is where TG Tools might come in handy. > If you ever had to create a new system in the middle of a document, you > could use TG Tools to copy all the spacings after the new system one system > later. > > > > In any case, if I had a lot of this to do, I would export the Finale as > PDF, and write the text in Word and export in PDF, then use Adobe Acrobat > or some other PDF manipulator to assemble the pages of text and music and > add page numbers. Finale is very frustrating when it comes to this kind of > thing. > > > > Christopher > > > > > >> On Jul 17, 2016, at 12:05 AM, Raymond Horton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Okay. Thanks, Allen. > >> Ray > >> > >> Raymond Horton > >> Composer, Arranger > >> Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church > >> Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016 > >> > >> > >>> On Jul 16, 2016 11:50 PM, "Allen Fisher" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> As far as I know, the only thing that can help is to turn off automatic > >>> music spacing and auto update layout (and introduce other potential > >>> problems), but there's no way to lock spacing > >>> > >>> Allen > >>> > >>>>> On Jul 16, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Raymond Horton < > [email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Good to know, but I guess what I need is some sort of " lock spacing" > >>>> command. > >>>> Thanks > >>>> > >>>> Raymond Horton > >>>> Composer, Arranger > >>>> Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church > >>>> Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Jul 16, 2016 10:34 PM, "Robert Patterson" < > >>> [email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> TGTools can copy spacing between systems. > >>>>> > >>>>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Raymond Horton < > >>> [email protected]> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> In this huge score I'm trying to finish up that has pages of text in > >>>>>> between 40 different songs, too often, when I have to move pages > >>> around, > >>>>> I > >>>>>> lose the independent spacing I have done on those staves. 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